A mysterious outbreak of typhoid fever is sweeping New York.
Could the city’s future rest with its most unlikely scientist?
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Apr 28, 2011
Donna
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A behind-the-scenes look at Typhoid Mary told in epistolary form from the point of view of a teenage girl with a curious mind, Deadly was a swift, fascinating read that had me running from one cover to another. Despite the fact that the letters were mere snippets in Prudence's life, despite the fact that the world is viewed very narrowly through her eyes, I felt everything she felt. I could see her mother, her boss and the female doctor she idolized as clearly as Prudence did.
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Jan 27, 2011
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Mar 22, 2011
This was a great historical novel about a disease and a person that I only thought I knew about. If I had to describe this novel with one word it would be interesting. And I don't mean that in a bad way.... I was fascinated by the way Prudence mind worked. I think to constantly question everything as she does would be absolutely exhausting... but at the same time I remember that curiosity that I once had myself. I remember my mom bought me a microscope and I spent hours looking at slides on that
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Nov 21, 2010
Abby
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Ever since her brother died of an infected wound, Prudence has been determined to further the medical sciences and save lives, but that's not easy when you're a 16-year-old girl in 1906 New York City. When she takes a secretarial job at the Department of Health and Sanitation, Prudence begins working with Mr. Soper, trying to track cases of typhoid and figure out how to stop the epidemic. All tracks seem to lead to one woman - Mary Mallon - but "Typhoid Mary" refuses to believe that
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Feb 22, 2012
Arthur
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Reading Level: Grades 7-9
16-year-old Prudence Galewski knows she should be grateful to be a scholarship student at Mrs. Browning's School for Girls but she finds her lessons in typing, literature and deportment oppressive. Prudence doesn't want to be a wife and mother or a secretary at a bank. She wants to know what causes diseases and how to prevent them even though girls in the early 19th century were not supposed to be interested in such unladylike things.
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16-year-old Prudence Galewski knows she should be grateful to be a scholarship student at Mrs. Browning's School for Girls but she finds her lessons in typing, literature and deportment oppressive. Prudence doesn't want to be a wife and mother or a secretary at a bank. She wants to know what causes diseases and how to prevent them even though girls in the early 19th century were not supposed to be interested in such unladylike things.
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Nov 17, 2011
Davina
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Remember when you were a little kid and one of the "mean" things the kids would call each other was Typhoid (enter name here)? Like Typhoid Mary? Ever wonder what her real story was?
Deadly follows the fictional story of a young girl, Prudence Galewski, in the early 1900's who feels that there is more to life than learning how to keep a house and husband. When she comes across a chance at a job with the Department of Sanitation to assist a Sanitation Inspector she decides tha More...
Deadly follows the fictional story of a young girl, Prudence Galewski, in the early 1900's who feels that there is more to life than learning how to keep a house and husband. When she comes across a chance at a job with the Department of Sanitation to assist a Sanitation Inspector she decides tha More...
Nov 05, 2011
Richie
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3 November 2010 DEADLY by Julie Chibbaro, Atheneum, February 2011, 304p., ISBN: 978-0-689-85738-6
"In pondering Mary Mallon's response, I think that Mr. Soper's accusation in front of her employer must've given her a great surprise and embarrassment. But I don't think we were wrong. We simply asked her for a test of her fluids. I'm beginning to see that people in the sciences often have to think in a different realm, somewhere beyond human emotions. They must hold their feel More...
"In pondering Mary Mallon's response, I think that Mr. Soper's accusation in front of her employer must've given her a great surprise and embarrassment. But I don't think we were wrong. We simply asked her for a test of her fluids. I'm beginning to see that people in the sciences often have to think in a different realm, somewhere beyond human emotions. They must hold their feel More...
Oct 26, 2011
Kelly
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I really liked this much more than I initially thought I would. But, I wanted more. There needed to be more thrust to the story. While I felt Prudence's passion for wanting to go into science/medicine, I thought that too much other was brought into the story and not expressed as much as it could have or should have been.
When I got to page 50 or so, I was SO ANGRY right along with Pru about how women had no power and couldn't grow up and be what they wanted. I wanted way more of that More...
When I got to page 50 or so, I was SO ANGRY right along with Pru about how women had no power and couldn't grow up and be what they wanted. I wanted way more of that More...
Aug 08, 2011
Maureen
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I gave this title to a few Senior girls last spring. One loved it, the other was lukewarm. I thought it was terrific and it will definitely will appear on my Mock Newbery 2012 list.
The premise grows a teensy bit like a sapling in Brooklyn, with a first generation New Yorker in the early 20th century whose mother sacrifices so she can go to a girls school that promises better work (secretarial vs factory work) for its graduates.
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The premise grows a teensy bit like a sapling in Brooklyn, with a first generation New Yorker in the early 20th century whose mother sacrifices so she can go to a girls school that promises better work (secretarial vs factory work) for its graduates.
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Jun 25, 2011
Emily
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It's 1906 and fifteen-year-old Prudence feels trapped by what little she learns at "Mrs. Browning's School for Girls." Her eager mind is thrilled when she gets a job taking notes for the department of Health. Her "chief," as she calls him, is trying to find out the source of a series of typhoid outbreaks. Prudence is part of the team that realizes that Irish immigrant and cook Mary Mallon, who is outwardly totally healthy, is a carrier of the typhoid fever and has been unk
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Jun 14, 2011
Sarah
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Prudence lives in a cramped New York City tenement with her mother. She attends Miss Browning’s School for Girls—and hates it. Instead of paying attention to lectures on how to properly
run a household, Prudence finds herself daydreaming about people and what makes them healthy or sick, especially since her brother died from injuries from a cart horse and her father is still missing in action from the Spanish-American War.
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run a household, Prudence finds herself daydreaming about people and what makes them healthy or sick, especially since her brother died from injuries from a cart horse and her father is still missing in action from the Spanish-American War.
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May 13, 2011
Tom
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Told through a series of Journal/Diary pages, Julie Chibbaro's DEADLY is a coming of age story of Prudence Galewski, a second generation Jewish immigrant in 1905-06 New York. In the course of the book Prudence goes from being a finishing school student who dreams of something more for herself to being an important, albeit somewhat minor character in the pursuit of Mary Mallon, the Irish immigrant who was dubbed "Typhoid Mary" by the popular press of the day.
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Apr 26, 2011
Sarai
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This was an interesting book that managed to get across a lot of scientific information without feeling as though that was what it was doing. It is presented in diary-entry format and has personal items and medical or historical items mixed together. It was not fast-paced or exciting, but it was a good solid read.
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A mysterious outbreak of typhoid fever is sweeping New York.
Could the city’s future rest with its most unlikely scientist?
If P More...
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A mysterious outbreak of typhoid fever is sweeping New York.
Could the city’s future rest with its most unlikely scientist?
If P More...
Mar 22, 2011
Julia
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I read this book at the same time as Susan Vreeland's "Clara and Mr. Tiffany" which is an adult novel set in the same time period (early 1900s New York City). So I was fully imersed in the culture of the time as I was reading it. This novel is written in journal format from Prudence's point of view. She takes a job working as an assistant/secretary to a disease hunter at the Deptartment of Health and Sanitation. She's very excited to be doing something that she feels is of value an
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Mar 19, 2011
Shannon
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Deadly was a good follow up to The Power of One, my previous read. Where The Power of One was epic and took me a few weeks to read, Deadly's scope was confined to less than a year and I read it in less than a day. Yet Deadly was enjoyable, interesting and, perhaps, most valuable to me, a read that is challenging enough for my daughters with absolutely no objectionable content.
Deadly is written in diary format by sixteen year old Prudence Galewski. Prudence is a second generation J More...
Deadly is written in diary format by sixteen year old Prudence Galewski. Prudence is a second generation J More...
Mar 04, 2011
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I picked this up off of our new books cart intrigued by the cover but without really knowing anything about it. After a bit of a slow start in the first couple of chapters, this became one of the most intriguing historical fiction books I've read in a long time! In 1906, Prudence is 16, attending a finishing school, but never quite feels like she fits in with the other girls her age. Ever since her brother died of an infection, she has been interested in germs and ridding the world of disease.
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Feb 05, 2011
cecilia
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deadly was almost a no-go for me, but it starts to get interesting after the first couple of chapters - it's when Prudence gets a job at the Department of Health and Sanitation that the story really picks up some steam. Before then, we had to endure the trials of finishing school where girls either learn to be housewives or governesses or some other seemingly unexciting things. Prudence never fits in that mold, and she has the luck of landing a secretary joy with the perks of also being assistan
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Dec 31, 2011
Megan
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Altogether this book is very good. It goes very in depth and makes you truly feel and see things as the character does. If you are into historical fiction/ mystery then you will probably enjoy this book also.
I liked the intricate plot and how everything fit together. I also liked how they showed her internal conflict as well as the external conflict. The internal conflict was written and described very well. The characters had many layers.
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Apr 30, 2011
Elizabeth
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Prudence takes chances and goes against the "socially accepted" roles of her time. When she tries to get a job...
"He cleared his throat and picked up my typing test. I racked my mind for a way to ask him about the job and what it might entail-I tried to call up words, by they seemed as ephmeral as clouds. 'So, I have all of your information, name, address and such,' he said. He stood, as if to end the meeting. And then it came to me. 'Sir, did the Departmen More...
"He cleared his throat and picked up my typing test. I racked my mind for a way to ask him about the job and what it might entail-I tried to call up words, by they seemed as ephmeral as clouds. 'So, I have all of your information, name, address and such,' he said. He stood, as if to end the meeting. And then it came to me. 'Sir, did the Departmen More...
Jun 11, 2011
Barbara
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Medical mysteries are intriguing, and this one, told through a series of letters and journal entries, has much to offer even though most of the mystery is solved during the first half of the book. Prudence Galewski, 16, leaves her vocational school in order to take a job working in the Department of Health and Sanitation on New York City. One of the first cases with which she is involved focuses on finding out the cause of an outbreak of typhus in the city. The author provides wonderful descript
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Mar 26, 2011
Bdalton
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It's 1906 and Prudence lives with her mother in a New York tenement. Her brother has died and her father joined up with Teddy Roosevelt to fight in Cuba with the Rough Riders. He hasn't been heard from in years. Prudence goes to a school where she is being taught to be a proper lady but also helps her mother who is a midwife. She gets a job working for the New York Department of Health and Sanitation with the epidemiologist who investigates the case of Mary Mallon, Typhoid Mary. This book i
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Dec 08, 2010
Andrea
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In the early 1900s the idea of a healthy carrier of a disease was unknown. But then an outbreak of typhoid became and became link to a cook. And thus was the beginning of Typhoid Mary. Told through the eyes of a teenage girl working for the Department of Sanitation, Deadly is the story of both Typhoid Mary and Prudence, who has dream of overcoming disease and death.
Before reading this, I had rudimentary knowledge of Typhoid Mary. It's sort of just an expres More...
In the early 1900s the idea of a healthy carrier of a disease was unknown. But then an outbreak of typhoid became and became link to a cook. And thus was the beginning of Typhoid Mary. Told through the eyes of a teenage girl working for the Department of Sanitation, Deadly is the story of both Typhoid Mary and Prudence, who has dream of overcoming disease and death.
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Apr 05, 2011
Karen
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This is the story of Typhoid Mary, one of the most infamous carriers of disease ever! Told through the diary of 16-year-old Prudence Galeski, who's been hired as an office/laboratory assistant at the New York City Department of Health and Sanitation, the story follows the investigation into a possible typhoid epidemic in 1906. At the time, the idea that someone who appeared to be completely healthy carried a germ or disease and could spread it to others was new -- and considered unbelievable b
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Mar 01, 2011
Kellie
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Mar 07, 2011
Kristina
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What an interesting book! The narration is told in diary entries written by Prudence Galewski, a young Jewish girl living in NYC. Prudence has always been fascinated by how the body works and what causes people to get sick, while others are able to stay healthy. She takes a job at the Department of Health and Sanitation and learns about germs and bacteria and how it spreads from person to person. To us, this might not seem so interesting, but in 1906, this was still a new concept that many peopl
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Apr 15, 2011
Jackie
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I did not think that I was a big fan of historical fiction, but this book made me reconsider that. This book was just so so good. I really would like to read her other book now. She has me hooked!
Prudence lives in New York City during the early years of the 1900s. He father has been missing at war for several years and her brother died from an infected wound before her father went off to war. It is just Prudence and her mother. Her mother has Prudence attend a school that teach More...
Prudence lives in New York City during the early years of the 1900s. He father has been missing at war for several years and her brother died from an infected wound before her father went off to war. It is just Prudence and her mother. Her mother has Prudence attend a school that teach More...
Apr 16, 2011
Ashley
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Prudence has always been interested in medicine and science-- ever since her brother died. But she’s stuck in a girl’s preparatory school learning to be a prim and proper secretary. But then she gets the opportunity of a lifetime to work in the office of Health and Sanitation, and help track down diseases and stop them in their tracks.
The concept of the novel was original and intriguing, and actually made my skin crawl a little. Julie took a little piece of history and created a story More...
The concept of the novel was original and intriguing, and actually made my skin crawl a little. Julie took a little piece of history and created a story More...
Dec 21, 2010
Precious
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Deadly was not how I expected it to be. First and foremost, I read it fast. In a day and a half – and I was in school in these days, reviewing for exams. Second, it was engrossing. The narrative of Prudence a curious mind seeking answers in a world full of questions, in a historical fiction like Deadly, I appreciated this. We always strive to know more, to discover and to have our questions answered.
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Deadly was not how I expected it to be. First and foremost, I read it fast. In a day and a half – and I was in school in these days, reviewing for exams. Second, it was engrossing. The narrative of Prudence a curious mind seeking answers in a world full of questions, in a historical fiction like Deadly, I appreciated this. We always strive to know more, to discover and to have our questions answered.
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May 11, 2011
Carrie
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When Prudence sees how many people in her city are sick with fever, she becomes curious about how this disease is spreading to so many people. As a result, when she attains a job working as a scientist’s assistant, Prudence drops out of her all-girls school, where she is learning skills in order to someday run a household. Because it is not common for girls in the early twentieth century to pursue careers in science, Prudence must work that much harder at being taken seriously. When her emplo
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Apr 22, 2011
Lindsay (Everyday Is An Adventure)
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Deadly is the tale of a Prudence, young girl living in New York in the early 1900s. While she sits in Ms. Browning's school learning how to become a lady, she daydreams about doing something more with her life than getting married and having babies. She practices as a midwife with her mother and learns that there is much more to being a human than meets the eye. It is these experiences that plant a seed in her to learn more about the sciences.
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